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Jeremiah 23:31

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Behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’

Context

28The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.
29“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.
31Behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’
32Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
33“When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘ “What message? I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’
34As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’ I will even punish that man and his household.

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